Intake Yes or No?? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

number73forlife · 12-30-2005, 04:55 PM

I own a 1999 Gen 4 LE "American Edition" Camry and have recently been bitten by the tuner bug. One of the things I'm considering to swap out on my car is the airbox intake for a Injen Tech. intake. I hear lots of back and forthing about its stupid and doesnt work or that its excellent and works great. Before I sink the $$$ into one along with the other items I'm purchasing I would like to get as much feedback about each particular system you all have installed or tried in the past and how it worked you. If intakes are indeed a waste of my time and $$ then I would appriciate ideas as to items that will produce the most power and gain and efficeincy gain per overall cost. I'm not looking to make this into a nasty 10 second car with superchargers and nitrous oxide and custom this and custom that or anything, I just put a little of me into it and up the performance as much as possible while bringing better asthetics to it. Thanks for the help and input. Peace for now.

***Eye8Pussies*** · 12-30-2005, 05:03 PM

for real, the answer is: you may as well

there is nothing else that you can get for your car that will help it's performance for that same price.....hmmm....'cept maybe used headers for the 4banger for a couple hundred...but then you'll eventually get an intake to open up everything anyway

so long story short, as much as the debate over intakes goes back and forth, it may not be "worth the money" in some ways, but since htere's so few parts available for our car, you may as well

AyzhenInvasion · 12-30-2005, 05:18 PM

^ yeah..

theman33b · 12-30-2005, 05:33 PM

I believe if you got the tuner bug your going to love the sound it puts out, just about everyone does. May not give much hp but at least you will sound cool. lol

05Cam-Weasel · 12-30-2005, 07:07 PM

w/ the injen intake the throttle response is better and when you accelerate there is a whistling sound coming from the engine bay (the car is finally breathing) the hp is nothing noticeable but to answer your question: yes you should do it

Ken4 · 12-30-2005, 07:21 PM

I tried an open pod filter in mine. It uses a stainless steel mesh and is very free flowing. Above 3000rpm it starts to roar and by the time it hits 6000rpm, it sounds like a Ferrari V12. Awesome sound! Is it faster? Nope. LOL. In fact it's about 0.3 secs slower than my stock intake with K&N drop-in. My ambient temps are 30~35C, so maybe thats the reason why open pod dont work for me.

camrycoupe95 · 12-30-2005, 07:59 PM

As the others said, it's the sound of an intake that make it worth getting. Just don't expect to burn the tires off the rims.

BTW, save your money, you can buy a $30 Ebay intake and acheive the same sound as the pricey name brand stuff. Since you are going to stay on the mild side, Injen won't be a benifit.

dirtdiggler · 12-30-2005, 09:05 PM

in my opinion i would spend the money on suspension upgrades. it seems that the aftermarket people decided not develop much on engine tuning. maybe a handful of manufacturers have something. i just placed a K&N drop in and invested the money on better suspension.

dirt diggler

BullMarket · 12-30-2005, 09:18 PM

Forget the intake!

If it's an auto...manual swap.

Other than that, springs/shocks or Coilovers, a thick ass whiteline rear swaybar and lightweight wheels w/sticky rubber. That oughta wake her up.

BULLMKT

97Heaven · 12-31-2005, 01:15 AM

Intake? Absolutely! You want to hear better from your car, don't you? Well, intake is a good idea. Camrycoupe95 is so right, EbaY saves your money and you basically get the same results in roaring sounds compared to quality brands, for cheaper.

97Heaven · 12-31-2005, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by BullMarket

Forget the intake!

If it's an auto...manual swap.

Other than that, springs/shocks or Coilovers, a thick ass whiteline rear swaybar and lightweight wheels w/sticky rubber. That oughta wake her up.

BULLMKT

Yaa, manual swap is a good idea too, but if the author just want enhanced sound for cheap, it is highly suggessted to bid on an intake from EbaY.

I like that swap idea, tho. I'm gonna pm you if you got info about swapping trannies. From what I heard, only the CE edition includes the 5-speed tranny. You can further help me on this.

number73forlife · 12-31-2005, 08:22 AM

Thanks to everyone for input and suggestions. As for Dirtdiggler and the few others saying stuff about suspensions, I already had to do that because the oringinal began to fail out. I have a brand spanking new high performance suspension in it so thats not really an issue. And for bullmarket's suggestion to swap the tranny, I don't really push the engine and tranny hard enough often enough to neccessitate such a job. I have plenty of pick up and go for everyday use and the occassional laying rubber on cement. For what ever reason I got really lucky and the 2.2L 4 cylinder in this particular car has much more power then a 2001 (still Gen 4 I think??) and a 2004 Gen 5. The owners of those cars favor mine for sportiness, braking, and handling over theirs and I havn't even done squat to it yet. Camrycoupe95 as the for Ebay intake, I think I'll pass. Out of all the intakes I hear getting bashed Ebay's are the worst of the useless. Response to those is it really is a waste of your 30$ while the others might do a little bit but Ebays certainly do nothing. And what is this "sound" that the intake will produce similar to. Some of say it is similar to whistling like rustling air while others say it it makes more over all engine noise like a monsterous 1000 HP Pasta Rocket motor from Ferrari and Lambourghini. A little more indepth / more accurate description of that would be nice. Thanks again to all that posted.

ptycamry · 12-31-2005, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by number73forlife

I own a 1999 Gen 4 LE "American Edition" Camry and have recently been bitten by the tuner bug. One of the things I'm considering to swap out on my car is the airbox intake for a Injen Tech. intake. I hear lots of back and forthing about its stupid and doesnt work or that its excellent and works great. Before I sink the $$$ into one along with the other items I'm purchasing I would like to get as much feedback about each particular system you all have installed or tried in the past and how it worked you. If intakes are indeed a waste of my time and $$ then I would appriciate ideas as to items that will produce the most power and gain and efficeincy gain per overall cost. I'm not looking to make this into a nasty 10 second car with superchargers and nitrous oxide and custom this and custom that or anything, I just put a little of me into it and up the performance as much as possible while bringing better asthetics to it. Thanks for the help and input. Peace for now.

I am going to say something leasaunce would have said... He's on vacation far from his car and his computer so I have to say it for him...

There is nothing that will give you more performance gain per overall cost than Nitrous Oxide... hahaha...

I was just like you when I started moding my Camry... I was like, "I just want to do a couple of things to make it look better, a bit more performance.." and stuff like that...

Trust me, once you're into it, you'll always want more and more..

As for the Intake, I say go for it... If you don't do it now, you'll end up doing it soon or later... I have an Injen in my V6 Camry and I'm loving it...

RedPhoenix · 12-31-2005, 09:09 AM

Turbo that son of a bitch

AyzhenInvasion · 12-31-2005, 09:18 AM

^ haha YESSSS just as he said !!

once you put in an intake, there will be a "whisiling" sound. it is the sound of air rushing through the filter (because the intake filter allows much more air to go through than ur stock) but this is not the sound that we are talking about. when you put in an intake, the tubing and not having a silencer (ur stock has a silencer) allows ur engine sound to come out more. (that sound gets me so high... -.- ) but yeah. you hear it inside, its like rooooarrrr lol. i don't know if people hear it outside (cause i'm the driver.. and to drive.. i sit inside..) one day i gotta ask a friend to stop next to me on a red light and when i floor it, ask him if he hears the sexy roaring of my I4 camry lol

intakes are always being argued. some say intakes don't do shit and you might as well buy a 30$ dollar one and save lots of money. some say they DO give you hp (like 4 or 5 lol) and that the ebay ones don't do shit so get the name brand. no one has given dynos to prove... (PLEASE DON'T START ARGUING JUST BECAUSE I SAID THIS !!) but yeah.. that would be your decision (i have an ebay one... i feel some power (but that might just because of the placebo effect) and the sound... is definitely worth my $30 lol )

now.. u've been bitten by the "tuner bug" lol.. and right now u've done the whole suspension and ur looking at intake. right? theres also the full exhaust (headers, exhaust) and many other engine parts. but as of now.. ur looking like a ricer to me =D (i'm a ricer myself). so i think that you should think about the manual swap. because 1. that removes the ricer tag. 2. it'll make ur car faster cause in a manual, you have less power loss through gears (automatic has that shit torque converter and a shitload of gears) so think about that swap =D